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Manic episodes may be precipitated by stressors, sleep deprivation, antidepressants, CNS stimulants, or bright light. 

Chronic illness affects everyone in relationship with the person who is ill, particularly those who live together. Multiple chemical sensitivity affects other members of the household more profoundly, perhaps, than any other illness because of the many accommodations required. Many relationships don t survive stressors of this magnitude. In light of this, it seemed important to include in this book a narrative on coping from the viewpoint of a healthy person who loves and lives with someone who has MCS. 

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There have been several attempts to provide a unifying hypothesis for the mechanism by which anthocyanins provide protection against such a diverse assortment of environmental stressors. Steyn et al. argued that because light can become toxic to green tissues under... 

In common with the anthocyanins, the colorless and yellow flavonoids are also inducible by numerous, disparate stressors. The best known of these is probably exposure to UV radiation, although flavonoids also accumulate in response to wounding, pathogen infection, high light, chilling, ozone, or nutrient deficiency. Antioxidant protection provides a possible common thread linking all of these different responses. 

For example, chemicals such as lead (Pb2+) or stressors such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) and UV light can modulate this control. Thus, from Figure 6.11 it can be seen by stopping inhibitory control [eg. ROS which blocks action of protein phosphatases (PTP)] a chemical can be mitogenic and increase cell division. Alternatively stimulation [e.g., low concentrations of Pb2+ stimulate protein kinase C (PKC)], is also mitogenic. 

Stressors to induce grooming e.g., novel environment, predator exposure, bright light, or other means of artificially inducing grooming (e.g., water mist). 

In task analysis, it is common practice to distinguish between stress and strain. However, these terms are sometimes used interchangeably and confusedly. In this chapter, stress refers to a condition that may lead to an adverse effect on the body, whereas strain refers to the effect of stress on the body. For example, working at a computer job in dim lighting often leads to headaches. The dim lighting is considered the stress, and the headache is the strain. The term stressor is also widely used as a synonym for stress. Strain has often been wrongly called stress. These terms must be clearly defined to determine which factors are causative ones (stresses) and which are consequences (strains). Stress is determined by task demands, while strain is determined by the amount of physical resources expended beyond some tolerable level. 

Controlling or eliminating environmental stressors (i.e., inappropriate temperature, humidity, light, noise, aggressive cage mates, cage size). 

Physical stressors include ionizing radiation (alpha, beta, gamma, neutron, X-ray radiation), nonionizing radiation (infrared, ultraviolet, visible light, radio frequency, microwave, and laser radiation),... 

The lack of job security has become very real with so much reorganizing and downsizing transpiring in the business community. Career pressures including increased responsibility are viewed as stressors by many workers. Some workers have jobs that are too complex for their talents, abilities, or skills. Last, but by no means unimportant, is the physical environment such as noise, temperature extremes, lighting, space, and odors. Other work environment stressors are... 

Main forms of physical stressors noise, temperature, light vibration and repetitive strain radiations. Main effects on the body. 

Not all stressors allow for this approach to sampling. The sampling equipmerrt must be robirst, light, portable and not interfere unduly with the workers activities. 

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